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A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works

MOLA Headland Infrastructure, 2020. (updated 2025) https://doi.org/10.5284/1081262.

Context 323416

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Context Information

Context number	323416
Parent context number	323415
Child context number(s)	None
Group number	202 (Inhumation Burial)
Settlement ?	Conington 3
General Period of Feature	Late Iron Age
A14 Area	Conington (TEA32)
Associated digital archive	MOLA Headland Infrastructure (2025) A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme: Digital Archive for Archaeological Works at Conington Landscape Block, 2016-2018 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1081253

Context Sheet(s)

Context sheet for context 323416
Filename	A14-TEA32-CN323416.pdf (78 kB)	PDF	Download
PDFs containing multiple context sheets are also available in the project archive: A14 Conington Context Sheets (323000-324299)		PDF	Download

Flint

Type	Total	Weight	Comments
Flake+Flake Fragments	1	0g

Human Remains

Inhumations

Preservation	Age group	Sex estimate	Inhumation details
Good	IU-neonate (Perinatal (=36 weeks preterm to 4 weeks post partrum)		view Inhumation details for object 62218 Truncated: 1 Comments: VERY SMALL REMAINS,ANALYSIS MH 07/09/20 FILL OF GAVE CUT [323415] INCOMPLETE AND DISARTICUALTED PROBABLY DUE TO MACHINING. ASS WITH STRUCK FLINT. RESIDUE SAMPLE <32540> TOT WEIGHT 562.4G 2MM 165.0G, (FINE STONES/ PEA GRIT/ GRAVEL FLAKES, MOD SORTED, SUB ANGULAR), <2MM: 397.4G (COURSE SAND, SILT DUST, GRAVEL FLAKES). R. MAXILLARY CENTRAL INCISOR CROWN COMPLETE C. 40 WEEKS (0.15 YRS) RECORD AMMEND MH 14/07/22 LONG BONES, RIBS, VERT, SPHENOID FOUND WITH (3234620) IN HEADLAND ARCHIVE POST ANLAYSIS Pathology comments: NONE

Inhumation pathology

Pathology code	Disease	Pathology	Comments	Pathology location(s) ?
1001	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia left	view 9
1002	Blood Disorders	Cribra orbitalia right	view 9

Animal Remains Data

Animal Remains Summary

Sample number	0
State of preservation	MODERATE
Weight	0.036g
Animal remains type(s) present	Pig Sheep or Goat
Number of bones medium mammals	3
Number of identifiable epiphyses	1
Number of measureable bones	1
Number of complete bones	1

Environmental Data

Processed samples

Sample number	Volume proccessed (L)	Volume wet-sieved (L)	Type of flotation	Volume of flotted material (L)	Comments	Assessment results
32540	6	0	Dry	6	view Comments: RECORDED AS A POSSIBLE NEONATE BURIAL Specialist comments:	view Environmental processed samples contents for sample number 32540 (2 records) Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: BONE HUMAN Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low Sieving/flotation process: Wet sieving Environmental material identified: CHD WOOD Abundance: Occasional Diversity: Low

Botany Data

Wet sieving (sample 32540)
Sample number	32540
Process	Wet sieving
Volume processed (L)	6
Volume flotted (L)	6
Abundance of charred wood	1-10
Diversity of charred wood	1-3 taxa
Comments	FILL OF POSSIBLE NEONATE BURIAL RECORDED AS A POSSIBLE NEONATE BURIAL